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A company secretary is asked to explain why a newly bought laptop cannot run any application until a particular layer of software is loaded. Which software acts as the interface between the computer hardware and application programs, managing resources such as the CPU, memory and storage?

The operating system is the correct answer. It is system software that sits between hardware and applications and manages the CPU, memory, storage and input-output devices. Spreadsheets and browsers are application programs, and antivirus tools are utilities that depend on the operating system to run.

  1. AOperating systemCorrect
  2. BSpreadsheet package
  3. CWeb browser
  4. DAntivirus utility

Explanation

The operating system is system software that manages hardware resources and provides services to application programs. Spreadsheets and browsers are application software, and an antivirus is a utility that runs on top of the operating system.

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